FAQs
Yes. You can transfer an existing cash ISA to your Triodos cash ISA. If you don't already have a Triodos cash ISA, you will need to open one first. Explore our range of ethical ISAs to find the right one for you, then apply via the Triodos Mobile Banking App.
To request the transfer, you’ll need to download and complete the relevant form below. The forms are interactive so you can fill out your details online, but you’ll need to print the form and sign it using a pen.
Then simply return it to ‘Freepost TRIODOS BANK’ and we’ll transfer the funds directly between your ISAs and protect your tax-free ISA status. Do not move funds out of an ISA yourself, because your money will lose this ISA status.
The transfer process usually takes between 14-30 days. We’ll write to you when the transfer is complete.
If you are transferring to a new Fixed Rate ISA, please note that it can take up to 30 days to complete a transfer. We must receive the funds from your existing provider within 60 days of the Fixed Rate ISA account opening date.
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Yes you can transfer other cash ISAs into a Triodos Fixed Rate Cash ISA. You can transfer previous and current years subscriptions held in another cash ISA. Transfers must be complete and funds received into your Triodos Fixed Rate Cash ISA within 60 days from account opening.
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The ISA allowance is the maximum amount you can invest across all types of ISAs in any one tax year. You can put your whole allowance into a particular type of ISA or you can split it between the different types of ISAs: Cash, Stocks & Shares, Lifetime and Innovative Finance. The ISA allowance for the 2023/24 tax year is £20,000. For Junior Cash ISAs, the allowance is £9,000.
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Yes, you can split your ISA allowance into different types of ISA: Cash, Stocks & Shares, Lifetime, and Innovative Finance.
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Yes, you can change your existing Triodos cash ISA to a Triodos Online Cash ISA by completing and posting us the form below.
Changes to a different type of Triodos cash ISA are not permitted from Triodos Ethical Junior Cash ISAs or non-ISA savings accounts.
Before downloading the form to change your account type, please make sure you have read the following;
- Summary Box for Triodos Online Cash ISA
- Personal Banking Terms and Conditions
- Tariff of charges for Personal Customers
- FSCS information sheet
Once you have read the important information above please download, print and complete the form below, then post it to us at:
Freepost TRIODOS BANK
On receipt of a completed request, we will change the type of cash ISA you hold, the balance of your account and your account number will remain the same. All money held in the account will maintain its tax-free status and the change will not affect your subscription allowance. We will write to you to confirm when we have actioned your request.
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Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs (HMRC) ISA rules require you to make a declaration, when applying to open an ISA. This is to confirm that you are eligible to subscribe to your ISA.
If you haven't subscribed to your ISA for a whole tax year, then you need to declare your eligibility again and confirm that you haven't paid into another ISA of the same type in the current tax year. You will not be able to make any further deposits into your ISA until a new declaration is made.
You can make your declaration in Internet Banking. Go to 'Old Internet Banking', then 'Account Management' in the menu on the left, then ‘ISA Declaration Management’. Here you will be able to see the status of your ISA and if you need to declare your ISA the status will show as ‘Not declared’ - you can click on ‘Declare now’ to do this.
We will send a notification within the Triodos Mobile Banking App (in your ‘Feed’) and Internet Banking (in ‘Messages’) if you need to make a new ISA declaration.
If you have a cash ISA and don't have online access to your account, you'll need to complete and return an ISA declaration form to FREEPOST Triodos Bank. Download your Cash ISA declaration form.
Junior ISAs and Fixed Rate Cash ISAs do not need a new declaration to be made after the account is opened.
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If you arrange a transfer between ISAs by completing a transfer form, your tax-free ISA status will remain protected and the transfer will not affect your ISA allowance for the current tax year.
Don’t withdraw the money out of an ISA yourself or move it to a personal bank account. If you do this, your money will lose its ISA status. This means that you can’t reinstate it and you’ll permanently lose that portion of your ISA allowance. If you choose to re-add money that you’ve withdrawn from an ISA, you’ll use up a portion of an ISA allowance, unless you have a flexible ISA.
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If after 60 days there is no deposit in your account it will be closed automatically. If you want to apply for another Triodos Fixed Rate ISA you can do so.
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The person with legal parental responsibility who opened the account. When the account holder turns 16 the child may apply to be the account operator.
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Each child can have one Junior cash ISA and one Junior stocks and shares ISA at any one time. These can be with different providers.
A child cannot hold both a Junior ISA and a Child Trust Fund, with the same or different providers.
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Moving money between ISA cash accounts by bank transfer will impact your ISA allowance. By bank transfer, we mean making a payment using the account number and sort code.
For example, if you paid money from a Cash ISA account into a Stocks and Shares ISA cash account yourself, the money leaving the Cash ISA would lose its ISA status. The money would then use a portion of your ISA allowance when it’s paid into the Stocks and Shares ISA.
When you withdraw money from an ISA in this way, you can’t reinstate it and would permanently lose that portion of your ISA allowance. If you choose to re-add money that you’ve withdrawn from an ISA, you’ll use up a portion of an ISA allowance, unless you have a flexible ISA.
If you want to move money between your Cash ISA and Stocks and Shares ISA without it affecting your ISA allowance, you will need to arrange an ISA transfer by completing an ISA transfer form (see below).
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Yes you are able to transfer your Triodos Fixed Rate Cash ISA to another provider and can do this by completing a transfer request form with the other provider. Transferring a Triodos Fixed Rate Cash ISA to another provider can only be done in whole, not in part. Transferring the account before the fixed term ends will incur a charge equivalent to:
2 year term – 180 days interest
3 year term – 270 days interest
The charge will be taken from the account balance, so you may get back less than originally deposited.
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There is no charge to move an account from another provider to Triodos, but you should check with your current provider whether there are exit fees or loss of benefits by transferring.
You should also read the Important Documents for the Triodos accounts you wish to transfer to, to learn about any associated costs or fees. You can find these on the relevant product pages on our website via the links below:
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To top up a Triodos cash ISA you can:
- Make an online payment from another account (either an account with another provider or another Triodos account that allows withdrawals).
- Send us a cheque if the Triodos cash ISA you want to top up accepts cheque.
The following accounts do not accept cheque payments:
- Online Cash ISA
- Fixed Rate Cash ISAs
If you want to deposit a cheque, please post it along with your account details or a paying-in slip to: ‘Freepost TRIODOS BANK’ (no stamp required)
The Triodos Bank sort code is 16-58-10 and you can find your Triodos cash ISA account number by logging in to your account online or via the Triodos Mobile Banking App, or by checking your bank statements.
Please note, if you have not paid into your ISA since 5 April 2022 you will need to declare your eligibility before transferring your money. For more information see Do I need to declare my ISA and how do I do this in Internet Banking?
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When you pay funds into your Account, your funds will start earning interest from the day the funds are paid into your Account.
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We are not currently opening new Junior Cash ISAs, however you can transfer funds from your Right Start Saver into an existing Junior Cash ISA, subject to the Junior ISA allowance of £9,000 for the 2023/24 tax year.
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Yes you can. As long as your deposits are received within the 60 days allowed, if you open your account close to the tax year end you may be able to subscribe into your Fixed Rate Cash ISA for two consecutive tax years. You will need to check the date your last deposit is allowed, this will be detailed on your account opening letter.
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Normally instructions given in internet banking to make a payment from your Triodos Cash ISA, Triodos Saver or Charity Saver account will only be carried out after the expiry of the notice period on your account. Any attempt to schedule a payment before then will be rejected.
If for any reason you need to withdraw your money earlier than the notice period, you will need to write to us by post or secure message in internet banking.
We will charge you the interest due on the amount withdrawn for the part of your notice period for which you have not given notice. So if you withdraw £500 on 15 Calendar Days’ notice from an Account set up on 33 Calendar Days’ notice, then a charge equivalent to the interest you would have earned on that £500 for 18 Calendar Days (i.e. 33 - 15) will be deducted from your Account.
For Fixed Rate ISAs withdrawals are not allowed until maturity. The only exception to this is if you close the account and/or transfer the full balance to another ISA. Early closure will result in an early access charge being applied equivalent to a number of days of interest.
2 year term – 180 days’ interest
3 year term – 270 days’ interest
The charge will be taken from the account balance, so you may get back less than originally deposited. In exceptional circumstances the early access charge can be waived at our discretion.
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Before the child turns 18 we will contact you to confirm that the Triodos Ethical Junior Cash ISA will become a variable rate cash ISA on the child’s 18th birthday. After this date the child can decide what they wish to do with the account/funds.
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Yes. We will write to you one month before your fixed rate cash ISA matures, asking you to let us know what you'd like to do with your funds. You can then ask us to change your fixed rate cash ISA into another Triodos cash ISA, when it matures.
Alternatively, during the fixed term of your Triodos Fixed Rate Cash ISA, you can request to change your Fixed Rate Cash ISA into another Triodos cash ISA, but you will incur a 'breakage charge' as per the terms and conditions. The ‘breakage charge’ is equivalent to:
- 2 year term – 180 days' interest
- 3 year term – 270 days' interest
The charge will be taken from the account balance, so the balance in your new type of Triodos cash ISA might be less than originally deposited in your Fixed Rate Cash ISA.
There is no charge when changing to a different type of Triodos cash ISA on maturity.
For more details, see our how-to guide below on changing your cash ISA to a different type of Triodos cash isa.
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Yes. As long as the child was a UK resident when the Junior cash ISA was opened, you will still be able to pay into the Junior cash ISA even though you and/or the child have moved abroad.
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A child may only hold one Junior cash ISA and one Junior stocks and shares ISA at any time and cannot hold a Junior ISA and a Child Trust Fund at the same time.
You can however apply to transfer a Junior ISA or a Child Trust Fund from one provider to another. You can also transfer between the different types of Junior ISA, in either direction.
Junior ISA- Transfers of current year’s subscriptions or transfers between the same type of Junior ISA must always be done in full.
- Partial transfers can only be done if they are previous years’ subscriptions and you are moving the subscriptions between different Junior ISA types e.g. Junior cash to Junior stocks and shares or Junior stocks and shares to Junior cash.
- The whole of the Child Trust Fund must be transferred and the Child Trust Fund subsequently closed.
- The annual subscription allowance for a Child Trust Fund is based on the child’s birth year while Junior ISA subscriptions are based on tax years. When a transfer of a Child Trust Fund to a Junior ISA has been made, the child can use the full Junior ISA subscription allowance for the tax year in which the transfer takes place regardless of any subscriptions made to the Child Trust Fund in that year. This only occurs in the tax year in which the Child Trust Fund is transferred, in subsequent years only the Junior ISA allowance can be used.
We are not currently opening new Junior Cash ISA accounts, so for now transfers can only be made to existing Junior Cash ISAs.
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The Junior ISA allowance is £9,000 for the 2023/24 tax year.
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We ask you to complete an ISA declaration when making a choice for your maturing fixed rate cash ISA in Internet Banking so that you are able to make current tax year’s subscriptions to your ISA if you would like to.
You are not obliged to subscribe to that cash ISA after completing the declaration and can choose to subscribe to a different ISA if you want and you are eligible to do so (as long as you don’t breach the ISA rule of only subscribing to one of each type of ISA in a tax year).
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You can transfer part of an ISA from one type to another or between providers by indicating how much you would like to transfer on the relevant transfer form.
You can select whether you want to transfer:
- the entire ISA
- the current tax year’s ISA subscriptions in whole, and/or
- previous tax years, ISA subscriptions in whole or
- previous tax years, ISA subscriptions in part
If you are transferring part of a Stocks and Shares ISA, and your subscriptions are invested in more than one share class, please specify the name of the share class(es) from which you would like to sell the shares.
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How-to guides
How to transfer an ISA to a Triodos cash ISA
Change the type of cash ISA held with Triodos Bank
How to transfer an existing ISA to a Triodos Stocks & Shares ISA
Documents
- Interest rates for personal accounts (including discontinued accounts)62 KB, PDF
- Triodos Online Cash ISA Summary Box36 KB, PDF
- Financial Services Compensation Scheme (FSCS) information sheet79 KB, PDF
- Cash ISA declaration form60 KB, PDF
- Privacy Statement68 KB, PDF
- Transfer between existing Triodos ISAs 173 KB, PDF
- Personal banking tariff for current and savings accounts36 KB, PDF
- Triodos Two Year Fixed Rate Cash ISA Summary Box39 KB, PDF
- Terms and Conditions for our personal savings accounts146 KB, PDF
- Triodos mobile app terms and conditions49 KB, PDF
- Transfer to the Triodos Junior ISA from another provider≈ 1 MB
- Cash ISA account type change request form159 KB, PDF
- Transfer an ISA from another provider to a Triodos cash ISA98 KB, PDF
- Personal Savings: Change of account type request form69 KB, PDF
- 'Transfer for Good' Terms and Conditions70 KB, PDF